Psychological Test #5

b_heyer

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A man is stuck in a stone cave. The only way to get out is if he gets a ping pong ball out of a steel pipe that is cemented 3 feet into the ground. He has nothing with him except a hairdryer and a basket ball. How does he get the pingpong ball?

Cuerock

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I have heard this before. Cant think of the answer though. But what does it matter? Why does it matter if he gets the damn pingpong ball or not?

Nucleo

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find the end of the pipe and suck it out
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oh yea.....no electricity on a cave...erm

dr nick

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Can he actually plug in the hairdryer to use it?

b_heyer

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It matters cause if he gets it he can escape the cave...uh magical powers?

Dr. Nick Nah

dr nick

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Does he need to deflate the basketball in any way?

b_heyer

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nahh

dr nick

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Hmm. OK. Does he need to use air in any way to get the ping-pong ball out?

(if the answer to this is nah, could you drop an extra small hint!!??)

b_heyer

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nah.

eheheh not yet I want to see if anyone else has any guesses

Cuerock

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what are we macgyver? LMAO? Does he put his lips on the pipe and suck?

Cuerock

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is there any electricty to the hairdryer?

Cuerock

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never mind on the electricty thing

JUST READ

b_heyer

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nope nope nope

Good idea with the lips tho.

Cuerock

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I will answer this it is annoying me. 135 on an IQ test and i cannot get this!

ATNO/TW

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Cuerock -- this is so way off topic, but it's been bugging the heck out of me. Did you "intentionally" type your signature the way you have it? I'm sure you must have, but there's no way, no how I understand it. *lol

Cuerock

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Yes, Think how kids talk....

You DO not know me!--- adults
You NO not know me! -- Kids

Just a little funny i got from my daughter!

ATNO/TW

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Thanks cuerock -- for a sec I thought I was going bonkers there.

Cuerock

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N/P!! I was waiting for someone to ask me! I didn't think that anyone had caught on to it!

b_heyer

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I cought it just never considered it as anything more then an alliteration.

PluTunium

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He rubbed the (plastic?) hairdryer on his pants and created static electricity and then it attracted the ping pong ball and it came out of the pipe

b_heyer

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hehhe nice try but it is cemented 3 feet into the ground. static electricity created from rubbing two objects is no where nearly that strong!

PluTunium

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Yah i figured....NEW GUESS:

he popped a hole in the basketball and squeezed the air into the pipe, forcing the air behind the ping pong ball and making it come out of the pipe.

b_heyer

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Nopers!

ModernDestroyer

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He popped the basketball and ripped it into strips, then weaved a basket out of it and tied the end of the hair dryer to it. then used it as a scope to pick the ping pong ball out of the bottom of the pipe.

The only other thing I can think of is he peed in the tube, and the ping pong ball floated up. What he did with the hair dryer and basketball are none of your business

ATNO/TW

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You know that state of mind you're in when you are first waking up and your subconcious is still communicating with you on that higher level? Well when I woke up this morning the word that was in my mind was "dribble" I did a little lateral thinking and came up with this.

I think the guy found him self in quite a jam, so he did what any good basketball player would do and picked up the basketball and dribbled his way out of it.

(I doubt that's the correct answer, but I think I'm on the right track - I'm gonna really be freaked if I'm right).

dr nick

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I'm with ModernDestroyer. He threw the hairdryer away and played basketball to pass the time so that he could periodically go back to the tube and 'pee' the ping-pong ball out...